A counterexample to Batson's conjecture
Abstract
We show that the torus knot T4,9 bounds a smooth M\"obius band in the 4-ball, giving a counterexample to Batson's non-orientable analogue of Milnor's conjecture on the smooth slice genera of torus knots.
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